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Neville Roach AO with previous Consul General to Sydney Vanlal Vawna garlanding Gandhi’s bust at NSW university
there, of the one and lonely Indian restaurant in those early days, of IndoAustralian cultural Society, of recession of the nineteen nineties and scarcity of jobs, or how the cane cutters used sign language to communicate while cutting cane seven days a week, as they made life-long friends with their employers who acted as their guardians even. Stories of Bains and Johal family are quite inspiring and depict an era of Australia hundred years ago, then stories of some who came under the Colombo Study Plan in the 1950s who contributed through their academic skills such as of Dr. Sidhu, a scientist whose work centred on Sea Food processing, Prevention of Milk Oxidation, Lowering
cholesterol absorption and much more. Banana farmers, teachers, doctors, scientists, lawyers, managers, IT professionals, businessmen, property developers and other varied professions, they all make up an inspiring yet a formidable bunch. Neville Roach, AO who helped in his hey days on formatting multicultural policy for the government of those days which, of course, has helped Australia into a successful multicultural and a harmonised society living peacefully with people from over 130 nations who made Australia their home. Indians surely have played a big part, are a growing population with close to sixty gurdwaras and 75 temples. They top the skilled migration list of people arriving in Australia with Hindi, Punjabi, Ben-
gali and Tamil languages also growing in number along with them. Stories are interspersed with pages devoted to the vibrant Indian society made up of artists, well known people, cultural groups, sports personalities, Indian consular services with a table on bilateral trade between India and Australia and much more. The fifty of Walia’s successful stories are a window to many more hundreds and thousands who struggled in the community who came here in the last
Community with NSW Premier Ms.Gladys Berejiklian
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